Peppi is a primary school teacher in Athens, Greece. She’s from Greece but trained to teach in the UK before returning. A teacher for 20 years she still talks about the job with passion and excitement.

It’s great to get a view on teachers’ health issues from someone outside England. I feel, as teachers, we too often see ourselves as the centre of the educational world – if we do consider other countries it’s, “country X does this, why can’t we,” or “country Y does this, I’m glad I’m not there.”

Peppi talks openly about the sorts of issues we face on a daily basis: workload, reliance on data and the constant need to prioritize. Although she does mention doing the job in 30 degrees requires a siesta after lunch – not a problem we have in the UK.